184 results for “General Electric”, page 8 of 10
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Patent · January 14, 1958
Friction material (US Patent 2,819,987, 1958)
…It was assigned to General Motors Corp. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates to friction facings and is particularly concerned with non-metallic friction facings used in connection with wet…
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Patent · January 15, 1957
Thermal insulation (US Patent 2,777,786, 1957)
…22, 1954. It was assigned to Leobarb Corp. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates to thermal insulation of general untility of the type suitable for use in buildings, refrigerators, vehicles…
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Article · Motley 1000 · November 1953
Isselbacher, Klaus and Hardy, Asbestosis and Bronchogenic Carcinoma (1953)
…Hanna Klaus and Harriet L. Hardy of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, subtitled "Report of One Autopsied Case and Review of the Available Literature." It described a 41-year-old asbestos mill worker who died of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 5, 1952
Johns-Manville Correspondence on Herbert Miller's Threatened Asbestosis Claim (1952–1953)
…dated 8/5/52, concerning a claim from Herbert Miller. Hall reports: "In accordance with our general understanding with Messrs. Parsonnet, Weitzman & Oransky that all alleged asbestosis cases would be discussed with us before any petitions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Silicosis and asbestosis: diagnosis, prevention and treatment
…stated that effective therapy for disabling asbestosis had not been demonstrated. American experience had not shown more lung cancer in recognized asbestosis cases than in the general population, although British experience suggested a possible causal relationship…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1950
Tubular crystals of chrysotile asbestos
…oxygen sheet. The authors concluded that both natural and synthetic chrysotile crystallize as hollow cylindrical tubes, and that there is a general structural analogy and a striking resemblance between the tubular crystals of endellite and chrysotile.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 18, 1950
Arthur J. Vorwald to W. G. Hazard on Waiting for the Final Kaylo Report (1950)
What it shows Vorwald also reported that Saranac's general asbestos paper was with the Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine and expected to appear soon (see Vorwald, Durkan and Pratt). The letter shows the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 27, 1951
H. M. Jackson to Arthur J. Vorwald Asking for a Fiber Count Standard (1951)
What it shows The dust limit then in general use for asbestos was five million particles per cubic foot, a count of all particles rather than fibers (see the 1947 limits of the American Conference of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 30, 1957
Dr. Kenneth Smith to Ivan Sabourin on the Condensed Industrial Hygiene Foundation Survey (1957)
…stressing that "the hypothesis that asbestos miners do not have a higher mortality from lung cancer than does the general population cannot be rejected." He also agreed with Doctors Cartier and Braun that some workers "probably…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 18, 1957
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Stenari on a Customer's Silicosis Question about Steam-Cured Asbestos Cement (1957)
…such inquiries should be handled one at a time, and "it is the responsibility of the General Attorney to approve all written or oral representations to customers in the field of occupational health." In 1957, then…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 10, 1956
J. A. Bettes, Jr., to B. W. Luttenberger on the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's Asbestos and Cancer Survey (1956)
What it shows The survey grew out of the Institute's March 1956 meetings, where the Board of Governors had funded a preliminary survey (general meeting minutes of March 8, 1956). It led to the Industrial…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 14, 1956
W. E. Shoemaker of American Mutual to W. V. Ballentine on Keeping Asbestos Textile Institute Notes Confidential (1956)
…with our referring to it at any time in contacts with insured's executives," naming three Keasbey & Mattison men. Copies went to Norman Kley, general manager, and John B. Skinner of the home office engineering department…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1956
M. S. Badollet and M. B. Ximenez, "The Role of Asbestos in Plastics," with M. S. Badollet, "Asbestos Floats" (CIM Transactions, 1956 and 1952)
…M. B. Ximenez, "The Role of Asbestos in Plastics," Annual General Meeting, Quebec City, April 1956 (Transactions vol. LIX, pp. 283-288) M. S. Badollet, "Asbestos Floats," Ottawa General Meeting, January 1952 (Transactions pp. 185-189)…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Pulmonary Disability in Asbestos Workers" (1955)
…It also states as a general finding that "no cases of asbestosis were found who had worked less than 20 years in the dust." In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · September 5, 1957
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene and Manufacturing Committee Minutes on Dust Sampling (1957)
…Epidemiological study conducted by IHF sponsored by QAMA is in its final stages. Related documents Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes and President's Message (1957) About this copy This is document 55 of the Motley…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 6, 1954
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee and Board of Governors Minutes on Insurance Forms, Autopsies and Lung Cancer (1954)
…representative of Asten-Hill advocates calling asbestosis "pulmonary fibrosis" on insurance claim forms and answering questions from insurers re occupational nexus in the negative, so that indemnity can be obtained from general insurance companies. K.W…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 1955
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes and Proposal for Asbestosis Research (1955)
…asbestosis is reviewed in detail. Attached is "ATI - Air Hygiene Committee Proposal for Asbestosis Research," 6/55 (handwritten date). Related documents Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes Rejecting an Autopsy Study, with the Asbestosis Research Proposal…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 7, 1956
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on Dr. Kenneth Smith, Dr. Hueper and Lung Cancer (1956)
…members had decided were "comparatively harmless," and dust counts at another company's mill. The next day's general meeting (March 8, 1956) described the purpose of the funding as action "to refute the work of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 19, 1950
Dr. J. F. Knox of Turner Brothers Asbestos, Report to the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association on Pulmonary Cancer (1950)
…which carcinoma was associated with asbestosis. Knox points out the limitations of such small studies, and advocates clinical studies comparing cancer rates of those in the general population with those of asbestos workers as a group.